Support the need to urgenly act at all levels in order to boost and integrate Research & Innovation forces in Europe to leverage the broad range of industrial opportunities linked to drones integration in the aviation industry.

1. Introducing the Drones Outlook Study
Drone coordination group meeting 09 DEC

2. 2
Core objectives of the Drone Outlook Study
“Support the need to urgenly act at all
levels in order to boost and integrate
Research & Innovation forces in Europe to
leverage the broad range of industrial
opportunities linked to drones integration
in the aviation industry"

3. 3
Main building blocks and deliverables
Detailed
Project Plan
Market Analysis
& Benchmark
Outlook 2035/2050 for drones
• Outlook production, operation and applications
• Application deep-dive in 5 sectors and
trajectory over time
• Driving forces & challenges
(technological, regulatory)
Benchmark Europe vs Other Regions
(particular focus on the US)
• Competitiveness drone industry
• Regulatory framework
Economic and
SESAR impact
Sizing & qualification priority R&D areas
• Gaps in ongoing R&D efforts Europe
• Dissociation SESAR from other
R&D areas
• Technological transfer opportunities
Economic impact EU economy
• Overall assessment (total ec. impact; jobs
created, impact industrial leadership)
• Deep-dive 4 member states
Integrated roadmap for Europe
• Actionable near-term recommendations
• Technological roadmap for inclusions in ATM Master Plan
• Regulatory roadmap with support of EC
Communi-
cation support
Develop summary presentation for
communication event in June
Participate for presentation support at
communication event in June
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III
IV
II.2
III.1 III.2
III.3
IV.1 IV.2

4. 4
Reference
groups
Timeline
Module 1
Detailed
Project Plan
Module 3
Economic and SESAR
impact
Module
4
Comm.
Support
Module 2
Market Analysis &
Benchmark
Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
Interim report Final report
Weekly Core Project Team Update Meetings
Key decision
points
Validate
Project Plan
Validate
qualitative assessment
Validate demand
outlook
Validate
economic impact
Validate
roadmap
Final content
validation

5. 5
Project management set-up – high level structure and roles
• Manage process and clear roadblocks
• Vet analysis and recommendations
• Escalate issues and concerns
• Link to SJU Governance Bodies
• Make decisions, resolve issues
• Provide data
• Secure buy-in for study results
Project management set-up Role
Stakeholders
SJU Executive director
Project leadership
(SJU + BCG)
Ad-hoc
3 Reference
Groups
BCG Knowledge
Centers
• Regulatory
• Aviation
stakeholders
• Innovators/new
entrants
• Specific interviews/
data collection to
de-risk process
• Tracking trends in
multiple end-
industries
• Dedicated
Knowledge Teams,
per industry

6. 6
Three reference groups identified to ensure systematic buy-in
and alignment on process and content
Goal
Potential
participants
(non-
exhaustive)
1. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association 2. European Helicopter Association
Ensure alignment amongst
relevant policy makers and
gather input on regulatory and
specific member state
perspectives
• EC
• EASA
• NSA representatives from
member states
• JARUS
Regulatory
reference group
Ensure alignment amongst
relevant aviation stakeholders
and gather input on airspace
safety & Single European Sky
• IATA (+ members)
• IAOPA1
• EHA2
• ASD3
• CANSO
• ACI
• EUROCAE
• EUROCONTROL
• EDA
Aviation
reference group
Ensure alignment amongst
relevant innovation leaders
and gather input on drone
outlook and applications
• Industry associations
(e.g. UVS International,
Transnational)
• Representatives from
innovative manufacturers /
application users
(e.g. DJI, Walkera, Amazon,
Walmart, DHL, Telefónica)
Innovation
reference group

7. 7
Intellectual Property
Insight Center
BCG proprietary assets and tools supporting the analysis
BCG IP Insight Center
• Dedicated IP Insight Center with
20+ experts
• IP analytics toolkit to extract,
analyze, and visualize data from
patient and scientific publication
databases
BCG Center for Sensing &
Mining the Future
• 90+ trends tracked
• 500+ megatrend cases across all
practice areas and geographies
• 40+ experts
• Database, Tools and Methodology
BCG Center for
Customer Insight
• Tracking trends in multiple end-
industries
• 50+ product and service categories
• 25+ experts
• Tools and custom research
capabilities
Global Practice Areas
• Dedicated global Practice Areas
covering specific industries &
functions (Aerospace, Defense,
High-Tech, Travel &
Transportation, Public Services)
• Dedicated knowledge teams per
industry
Supporting
the team
Center for
Customer Insight

8. 8
Immediate next steps
• DEC:
• Baseline Project Management Plan
• JAN:
• Appointment of participants to the 3 Reference Groups
• Preparation for the launch of the market analysis and
benchmark phase